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Which falls faster?

Which falls faster?

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by: FoFa Active Indicator LED Icon 17 OP 
~ 7 years ago   Dec 3, '16 9:02am  
Science Rocks! 4951
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monyhoney Active Indicator LED Icon 17
~ 7 years ago   Dec 3, '16 9:57am  
InterestingThat was a huge waste of time and resources!  Look at all the people involved.  How much do you think that cost? 4951
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whiterock Active Indicator LED Icon  New Member
~ 7 years ago   Dec 3, '16 9:59am  
Duh.  I could of saved them a lot of money. 4951
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~ 7 years ago   Dec 3, '16 4:44pm  
They didn't build that vacuum chamber just to do this experiment.  It had been built by NASA to test large equipment and containers to make sure they can handle the vacuum in space.  As for the costs of operating it and the men, look at it as a priceless video in demonstrating Galileo's gravity theory of objects falling at the same rate in the absence of air.  Galileo had already partially proved it by dropping balls of similar sizes but different densities from the Leaning Tower of Pisa, but couldn't prove that everything fell at the same rate in the absence of air.  In high school, I watched a similar, but much smaller demonstration in a table-top vacuum chamber.  It was impressive, but was over too quickly.  Even now, I'm amazed at watching the feathers and bowling ball drop that far at the same speed. 4951
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